Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-02-02
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Southern town now claims to be on boom,
and in most instances the claim is sustain
ed. The money that once purchased slaves
now goes into more substantial capital, and
cities and railroads are springing up on
every hand.
In boring we'll in Logan county, Ar
kansas, the drill suddenly dropped several
feet. A tube was let down, and it brought
to the surface quantity OF black sand,
copper and gold. Samples were sent to
st. Louis and the assay returned II pounds
of gold to the ton.
Mr.. w. F. Windle, about sixty-eight
years of age, and resident of Charlotte, n.
c., for the past thirty five years, committed
suicide in that city on Tuesday morning of
last week, by shooting himself in the head
with pistol. He was stricken with paral-
ysis some time ago, and his mind was af-
fected. The deceased was highly respected
in Charlotte.
- In the Woman's Suffrage Association
of Cook county, Illinois, recently held in
Chicago, the principal point under discus
sion was that of uniting with the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. Part OF the
convention favored this combination, be-
.lieving that it would help them to gain their
point; others opposed the motion, arguing
that it would be an obstacle in the way.
, On last Thursday night the store of
Morris Brothers at Dallas, Nc, was enter
led by burglars, the safe blown open and rob-
bed of about $500 in cash, and the building set
on fire. It and the contents were totally de-
stroyed. The store was new brick build
ing, and the loss, including stock of goods,
is about $4,000, on which there is only
81, 900 insurance.
IT. G. Evans, of Nanticoke, Pa, who was
arrested last fall for bribery at Republican
fconvention in offering candidate for sheriff
his vote and the vote of twenty-four others
for $40 each, was convicted in the Criminal
Court at Wilkesbarre, last Friday. Judge
Woodward made strong charge and the
Jury promptly agreed. The exposure was
made at the time by the Record, a Repub-
/ |lican paper, and created widespread interest.
- On Monday of last week, William Iced
\ Dornish, of Sharpsburg, Washington coun-
ty, KY, shot Miss Lula Greene through
the heart and brain because she would not
marry him. Cornish was captured and
taken to Springfield, the county seat. Last
Saturday night mob, composed of seven
ty-five men, entered hejail and secured the
prisoner. He was taken to farm about
two miles north of the town and hanged.
"A State Convention of farmers Of North
Carolina was held in Raleigh last week,
the second Wednesday in next January.
Reform and economical expenditure of the
public money was the object aimed at by
! the Convention. Among other resolutions
{adopted was one requesting the General
SAssembiy to enact laws to reduce the sala-
| iries of Superior Court clerks and registers
| of deeds and the creation of tax collectors
for the several counties of the State.
= The recent act of Congress pensioning
Mexican war veterans debars those under
sixty-two years of age, to which one of the
Excluded class says: "It seems rather in
consistent that being over forty-five years, l
am considered incapacitated by. reason OF
the inirmities of age from holding posi-
Ition in Government employ, while by the
restrictions of the recent act pensioning SOL
diers of the Mexican war am in effect re-
garded as fully competent, mentally and
physically, to earn a livelihood until am
sixty-two years of age"
Some anxiety has been entertained by
certain parties in Richmond and elsewhere
as to what might possibly be found in the
cell occupied by the late T. j. Cluverius, and
the time was anxiously awaited when the
door should be opened. 1t was opened last
Thursday in the presence of reporters for the
press, and everything examined minutely.
No confession was found, nor was there any
good grounds for believing there would be,
in the estimation of persons who really fol-
lowed the case in all its phases.
A letter has been addressed to the Presi-
dent by the National Legislative Committee
pf the Knights of Labor, asking him to veto
the interstate commerce bill. They claim
10 represent nearly 5,000,000, or nearly one
tenth of the whole people of the United
States. Their objections to the bill are first,
the commission clause; second, the arbitrary
power conferred upon the commission; !;
third, the exclusive jurisdiction given to
the federal courts to hear and determine
causes arising under this act; fourth, the ac-
of nearly all of the provisions of the
measure.
I-Eot less than dozen instances of fail
urs in the bold surgical operation known
as laparotOmy, or cutting open the abdO-
men in order to repair inward hurts, have
been kept out of public sight in New York
within six months. The success in several
Eases, however has been freely disclosed.
The latest death was that of boy treated
ht the Chambers street hospital, a public
reception place for wounded persons. At
ter the usual manner his bowels were en-
Eirely removed through long incision,
the wounded intestines sewed carefully,
md then everything replaced as carefully
is might be. The lad expired in an hour.
The surgeons held that he could in no event
have recovered, but there is a feeling that
hese dreadful operations should not be re-
orted to in utterly hopeless cases.
"A communication from the Secretary of
he Treasury to the House estimates that
he number of survivors of the Mexican
War entitled to pensions under the bill
passed by Congress is "a, 1926. The first an
bual payment will require "a 1858, 104 and to
dispose of the claims the Pension Office will
beed an increased force of 221 employees, at
cost OF S267, 900. The Wheeling, Va,
Re0ister calls attention to the fact that since
he close of the war the sum of S., ,00O, 900
las been paid out of the United States treas
Try for pensions. The bill for the present
rear will pay out S75 900. The list is
till on the increase, and lit probably will
lot be long until every man who enlisted
the army or navy is pensioned." Our
overnment now pays more for pensions
han all the combined powers of Europe
With their immense armies and frequent
vars.
The Senate has a second time rejected
he nomination of James G. Matthews, the
blored man from New York, to be Recorder
Deeds for the District of Columbia. 1T
said that the vote stood II ayes and 81
oes, and that of this number three Repub-
hns voted "aye" and about six Democrats
no." A Chicago daily makes timely OBJ
ervation when it remarks that with Dem
cratic President trying to give the office of
= Pcorder to colored man, and Republican
enate trying to keep him from doing so,
be impression is likely to be made on the
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